The Gruesome Story of a Boy Who Jumped Off Rollercoaster at Kings Dominion

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Since the 1920s, roller coasters have become a staple of amusement park culture. Rarely do you meet someone who isn’t brave enough to try at least one theme park ride and experience the rush of adrenaline it provides. Since its boom in popularity, roller coaster designers have scrambled to make every model taller, longer, and faster than the last.

However, with each rollercoaster getting wilder than the last, so have growing fears around their safety. Of course, we all know these fears aren’t baseless. Time and time again, we’ve seen companies cut repair costs of these roller coasters, ignore early Infrastructural warning signs, and refuse to put proper safety measures in place. Many have died on what was supposed to be a good day, and many more have been left with physical and mental scars due to the gross negligence of park authorities.

Everyone has a reason to be scared of metal death traps taking them miles off the ground, and it was for fear of his safety that 13-year-old Eamon McIntyre jumped off a roller coaster on September 2nd, 1999.

So, what exactly went down on that fateful day? What had made the young man so scared that he risked his life to escape it? And what events occurred in the aftermath to solve it?

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38 thoughts on “The Gruesome Story of a Boy Who Jumped Off Rollercoaster at Kings Dominion”

  2. You can slip out yourself if you are skinny enough.. and they dont push the safety further down into clicking, leaving a gap between the body and the safety. but he screamed it was not LOCKED.. I myself had sometimes that it locked a little bit too wide instead on my legs so when the ride started i was moving a lot and scared. It was locked but not locked enough (i am not english but i hope you understand) So maybe that was the case, it was not locked close eniugh. Because the times the ride did not close the lock enough for me i could have slipped out also easily if i wanted. But the other times when the ride was really locked tight i couldn't even move 😅 So imagine his ride was locked but not close enough and that is why he could go away and jump. I remember in the coasters i went in they really push it far into my legs before the ride starts. But also few times they just only pushed it slightttly down till a click and i could also move my legs and shake around when the ride was moving. Maybe they didnt do it that time with him also and there was a gap.

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  5. I grew up going to this park but I gotta dislike this video, because while you are a competent writer, it is gross to try to narrate the words, thoughts, and emotions of real people you don't know as if you were there. If you want to write fiction, write fiction. Do not take creative liberties with the real lives of strangers.

    And Paramount ran the park from 1992 through 2003; they dropped the whole 'candy apple grove' themeing of the original ownership by the time this incident occurred. TOGO is such a sketchy company, though, so I do believe the kid.

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  6. Honestly, the very fact that he was able to get out of his harness while the ride was in motion means something is wrong. Plus, I seriously doubt that after riding this ride numerous times, not just on this day, he would all of a sudden be nervous to the point that he would actually jump from the ride. Yeah, right.

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  7. I think you can trust gut feelings or premonitions, if you feel something is wrong you are probably right. So this boy most likely was right about the ride and could have gotten killed or really hurt. The park probably didn’t want to face more backlash or admit there coaster failed again

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  10. i was at six flags NJ with my friends. we were the next in line to board the wonder woman lasso thing that spins you while swinging you in the air – or as you identified, a frisbee coaster

    horrifying

    and i’ve been on that kinda ride two or three times before
    but i felt
    like this was the one
    the disaster
    but i felt foolish to say anything

    fortunately, the ride got closed due to the impending storm
    so i never got to find out how valid my fear was

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  11. If the safety harness was really working, how did he get out? Yeah…that's what I thought. The kid had been on the ride four times without incident. He KNEW how the safety gear was supposed to operate. It was smart of him to listen to his instincts.

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  21. They would NEVER admit anything was wrong, even if they found it. They ain't gonna deal with the $$$ that would cost with insurance and all that shit, no way. Thebonly way in hell they will admit ANYtging is when someone gets killed.

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  22. Here is the answer 🤘. I almost fell out of a coaster as a child because the harness bar (was locked but it wasn't locked close enough to me. I knew the difference because like this boy I had ridden so many times before, and I was right because when the ride went backwards around the upside-down loop I came off my seat and the only thing that stopped me from continuing to fly out all the way was my knees that banged against the bar that was supoose to snug at my waist and slammed me back down into my seat!!! It was 30 years ago and remember it like it was yesterday. I bet this boy can tell you exactly what was wrong with his harness if was asked. 🙂 They could lock too far away from person. I supoose they swee designed this way because of different size people, so once it was pushed to touching person then brought back our it would lock at that spot or supoose to lock at that spot but I know from experience they malfunction.

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  25. You didn’t even get the facts of the first death properly. He hit a support not a walkway.

    Also, you’re over sensationalizing a boy who didn’t follow basic orders. It wasn’t an accident, it was them being stupid.

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  26. I’m going to get slammed for this but this is meant to be constructive criticism because I do like your content and am a subscriber.

    The number of photoshopped roller coaster “accident” photos is unnecessary and misleading.
    That along with inaccurate statements like rides taking you “miles high into the sky”start to bring the credibility of these videos down and the large amount of stock videos takes away from the seriousness of these accidents which isn’t fair to you because I can tell the amount of research you put into these. Don’t let trying to further sensationalize an already serious subject start to detract from the video as a whole.

    Keep up the good work, looking forward to more content

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  29. He shouldn’t have been able to wiggle out. They won’t let a ride with that relaxed of standards be installed like that one again. I got to ride shockwave before they tore it out. Pretty ok ride, very uncomfortable harnesses. Honestly kindof a pain to fight your body weight in g forces while standing on a coaster.

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  31. My question is, why would anyone in their right mind go on one of these dangerous rides to begin with? I would be nauseated and terrified out of my mind, going at crazy demonic speeds, sometimes up to 100 mph, spinning, twisting, hanging upside down — it all seems totally masochistic to me. also when i was a kid, roller coasters were slower and lasted longer. now they are insanely fast and insanely short and sickening, by my standards. i believe anything that dangerous should be deemed illegal and demolished. build a safer, slower ride that gives the rider a good time, a good view, and a bit of a thrill. but these death defying rides are ridiculous!!! ban them forever!!! these kids that go with their families and get killed, tragic as it is, the parents should be held accountable. what kind of parents are they??

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  32. I rode shockwave many times. It was an older ride and the type of ride you could get out of the restraints if you really tried. Most of us didn’t try though. Since you want to be secure when you ride. But that’s why people were able to slip out of the harness and one guy died and this young man jumped off.

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  33. Wow this is some final destination shit must like in the movie with the roller coaster incident except this kid lived and secondly of course the father's gonna disagree with oetk decision and legal decision about it's very safe the kid just panicked it's all no big deal except that he jumped out.ong.thats insane he's lucky all he did was hurt his anllkle wow.i thought fircaure this was gonna be tragic

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  34. I'm sorry, but, did you describe the new ride 'Delirium' as a "frisbee rollercoaster!?" That's terribly inaccurate and imagine what a visually impaired or a blind individual would be trying to envision…it would look nothing like the real thing that's for damn sure.
    I would of described it as a giant swinging pendulum with a disk attached to the very bottom. This is where the patrons are located as it swings back and forth ever so higher with each pass until the arm and disk are 90° to ground level.

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